Did you know that the word “denim” derives from the French town of Nimes known for its – blah, blah, whatever the fuck. Honestly, who cares? As long as you’re not one of those middle aged men that wear rugged denim vests with rugged denim shirts and, well, rugged denim pants, desperately hoping they’ll make ‘em look as young and rebellious as Jeans (sic) fucking Dean, we’re taking a wild guess here and say that you don’t really want to know about the rich (*cough*) history of denim.
Anyway, Reese Forbes, one of the best skateboarders of all time and Nike SB pioneer since pretty much day one, happened to be into denim when he was young and up-and-coming. He released a signature jean with one of his sponsors (we kinda forgot which one, sorry not sorry) that featured a lot of distressed details. Remember, kids, 2002 was a time when wearing artificially distressed pants wasn’t as ostracized as, say, clubbing a baby seal to death with a rusty wrench.
In their early days, Nike SB relied heavily on the inspiration of their team riders for their shoe designs. Gino Iannucci had an all-black Dunk because he liked dark colors so much, Danny Supa had an orange and blue one representing his favorite NYC sports team, and so forth. Consequently, the logical thing to do was for Reese to have an all-denim signature shoe, resulting in the Reese Denim Dunk. The Reese Denim Dunk was immensely popular and quickly scored insane resale prices. And since it’s the Dunk SB’s 15th anniversary this year, Nike figured it would be a capital idea to release a re-imagined version of the original Reese Denim Dunk; however, this time around, it’s a Dunk Hi and the denim’s not as distressed. We love the shoe already, as we expect the denim to possess great friction properties for ollying and kickflipping and whatnot. You can buy the Nike SB Dunk High OG „Reese Denim“ from February 23 both online and at our store in Frankfurt.
